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Living My Life

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Anarchist, journalist, drama critic, advocate of birth control and free love, Emma Goldman was the most famous—and notorious—woman in the early twentieth century. This abridged version of her two-volume autobiography takes her from her birthplace in czarist Russia to the socialist enclaves of Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Against a dramatic backdrop of political argument, s...more

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Published April 4th 2006 by Penguin Classics (first published 1910)

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Dec 18, 2012 Mike Snyder rated it 4 of 5 stars

This is the story of a woman who lived the fullest possible life. It's just a tragedy that what she dreamed of, what many people of her time dreamed of, was destroyed by the Bolsheviks. She saw the Communist reality in Russia and very quickly understood its demonic statism which she knew, and which it did, lead to disaster. A little long-winded at times, perhaps, but always enthralling for people intrigued y the question of how to change society for the better..

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Nov 10, 2009 Matt rated it 3 of 5 stars

This is a very intriguing, exhaustive autobiography that puts the lie to many of the flippant treatments you read/hear of Emma Goldman elsewhere. She was not some unbalanced romantic trying to compensate for a bad childhood or an inhumane psychotic, but instead a reflective, caring, passionate person who stood up for issues and people that/who were extremely unpopular in her day (and some of them still are). Her ideas were radical and her critiques of capitalist society salient.

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May 26, 2007 Linda rated it 5 of 5 stars

If you want to read the story of a woman who knew everyone worth knowing, originated every radical idea that's ever flitted through your mind eighty years before you did, loved literature, drinking, clothes, flowers, theater, conversation and parties...well, this is the book for you.

Inspirational and fun.

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Jul 08, 2010 Casey rated it 5 of 5 stars

Do you know about Emma Goldman? Beyond the anarchist stuff, the arrests? Do you realize how incredibly lucid her ideas were, all the way back in the late 1800s and early 1900s?! When I picked up this book, I thought I might be in for some stodgy, old-school prose, based simply on the fact the book is written about things that happened over 100 years ago. But SURPRISE! Her ideas are so GOOD. And she was so famous back then! And she was so much more progressive than anybody who gets any attention...more

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Apr 23, 2012 Elaine rated it 4 of 5 stars

Last time I started this, I could not get into it. This time -- maybe because I am taking a brief series of classes in Yiddishkeit at Green Apple Books sponsored by the Workman's Circle -- I am really enjoying it. I also read Vivian Gornick's biography of Emma, so I have a better overview. But I'm finding Emma's own retelling of her life very engaging.

J.Edgar Hoover called Emma Goldman "the most dangerous woman in America," and this book tells you why. Goldman is a terrific writer -- she can com...more

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Feb 24, 2013 Lena rated it 5 of 5 stars

Wow! What a life!! Hard to believe that it's non-fiction! I loved pretty much everything about this book. Despite the fact that each volume is around 500 pages (there are two volumes), it just drew me in and was a fairly quick read. What I found most enjoyable was that it read as both historical account and memoir, with a lot of details on her personal life, including relationships with her lovers, famous historical figures, assassins, and her family. This book shows that the seeds for social ch...more

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Jan 21, 2011 Liz rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

this is so good. I was always a bit "eh" on Emma Goldman because I read her essays and didn't find them earth-shattering. Plus I don't always agree with her political analysis -- her race-blind attitude was particularly unfortunate. You could say it was par for the times, but she was so far ahead on so much else that I expected more -- and anyway that's rubbish, lots of people critiqued her race politics at the time. That said, it turns out that Goldman's strength was not as a theorist but as an...more

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Sep 07, 2011 Alex rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: biography, capitalism, history, movement, patriarchy

this is such an epic masterpiece! i can think of at least 5 reasons why you should read this:

1. for the sordid details of Emma's many love affairs and open relationships.
2. for a view into the political and economic realities of the United States at the turn of the last century, which i don't know have ever been better explained than through Emma's immigrant, anarchist eyes.
3. for Emma's comments on virtually every radical and left-wing figure the 1890s - 1920s, including her relationships with...more

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Jun 05, 2010 Sasluu rated it 4 of 5 stars

This edition is abridged (I don't know, for the life of me, where you can find the full thing --it seems to be out of print), and sometimes the transitions did come off as somewhat jarring. Still, it was over 500 pages long, and worth every single one of them. Emma Goldman lived in one of the most interesting periods of American history, or rather, during a period in American history where things were exactly the same as they are now, but instead of targeting Muslims, the (then) "war on terror"...more

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Oct 21, 2009 Jennifer rated it 5 of 5 stars

It was daunting for me to come face-to-face with Emma Goldman at last. I wanted so much to admire and like--and feel that I could have been liked by--the woman whose ferocious, clear-eyed, resolute face stared out at me from the book's cover. The first few chapters elated me. Although I certainly had it a lot softer and easier than the young Emma, we had so many of the same values and ideas. Her self-discoveries, her delight in her own growing understanding of the world and in her ability to aff...more It was daunting for me to come face-to-face with Emma Goldman at last. I wanted so much to admire and like--and feel that I could have been liked by--the woman whose ferocious, clear-eyed, resolute face stared out at me from the book's cover. The first few chapters elated me. Although I certainly had it a lot softer and easier than the young Emma, we had so many of the same values and ideas. Her self-discoveries, her delight in her own growing understanding of the world and in her ability to affect it, mirrored a lot of my own experiences. I was so thrilled that I began to wonder when--not if--Emma would "betray" me, and I was so afraid of disappointment that I put the book down for several months.

At last I picked up her autobiography again and began to read. It's true, sometimes I would disagree with Emma, sometimes I would be exasperated with her, but it was hard to be disappointed in someone who was so uncompromising. She tried so hard to be brutally honest with herself and others, even if it meant life was harder for her as a result; the few times that her beliefs seemed inconsistent, or she seemed to be painting herself a little rosier than she should have were almost endearing. Emma Goldman was human. She had human frailties. Who the hell am I to criticize someone else for being defensive, inconsistent, or stubborn? I stopped seeing her as superhuman by about halfway through the book, but I think that made me like and respect her more.

The book itself--well, this edition is a condensed version of the original, which runs to two volumes. I'm curious as to what was left out; there was an awful lot about her personal life in this edition, and maybe more would be a bit dull. I wouldn't mind hearing more about the political intrigues and such that she had to deal with, though. Her writing style is extremely clear, very straightforward yet also very warm and personal. She's obviously brilliant and has a wonderful way of discussing political and philosophical questions in a way that's easy to understand without being overly simple. We get as much about Emma the woman, her feelings and motivations, as we do about Emma the revolutionary. Politics mingle with the personal in Goldman's autobiography; they're inseparable from each other. From the moment of her political awakening--which could just as easily be called a spiritual awakening--Emma Goldman embodied the concept that the personal is political. A more tumultuous, driven, fully-lived life I can't imagine.(less)

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Jul 09, 2008 Kressel Housman rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: history, non-fiction, jewish, biography, memoir

I read this when I was transitioning from far left activism to Torah Judaism, and this was the perfect book for it. Emma Goldman was as far left as they come – an anarchist at the dawn of the 20th century – but she was Jewish, and I agree with her grandmother, who said to the warden while bringing her Passover food to eat in prison, “My Chavaleh does more for the poor than the traditional girls.”

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Sep 12, 2008 Daniel rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: anyone.

Recommended to Daniel by: Howard Zinn

Shelves: hardcover, biography, non-fiction, you-can-borrow, feminism

Emma Goldman was an inspiring and almost superhuman. Her life contained an immeasurable amount of struggle for the liberation of humanity from capitalism and the state.

The metastory of Emma Goldman is quite sad. Having lived a large portion of her life in the United States, she adopted it as a homeland, and was promptly deported. Because Russia was in the midst of revolution, she therefore considered that her homeland. But conditions became so malformed there that she was forced to sneak out. An...more Emma Goldman was an inspiring and almost superhuman. Her life contained an immeasurable amount of struggle for the liberation of humanity from capitalism and the state.

The metastory of Emma Goldman is quite sad. Having lived a large portion of her life in the United States, she adopted it as a homeland, and was promptly deported. Because Russia was in the midst of revolution, she therefore considered that her homeland. But conditions became so malformed there that she was forced to sneak out. And she went from country to country, where no one would take her. Emma Goldman couldn't ever just go home.

But she never stopped struggling. When she was arrested, she organized inside US prisons for better working conditions for the prisoners. When Russia was in revolution, she tirelessly advocated for it. When she was deported, she radicalized the boat's crew, convincing them to go AWOL and join Russia in its revolution. When the revolution turned sour and Lenin began to put former capitalists in charge again, she was there, too, struggling to defend the Kronstadt sailors, and then going across the world to condemn the Bolshevik betrayal.

Something that I had never known about Emma Goldman was her infatuation with art, specifically theater. As an orator, she spent the majority of her time speaking about modern drama and social thought in theater. She was a public intellectual as well as a radical, and a self-taught cultural critic.

The unabridged version of this book is a thousand pages long, in two volumes: one roughly covering her experiences organizing in the United States, as she moves in the anarchist movement from margin to center, and then, in the second volume, her deportation to Russia, her disillusionment there, and her wandering around the globe. If I had known better I would have read the abridged version. At first, I thought it was an outrage to abridge such an incredibly important person's life. But there were plenty of pages that slowed the narrative arc, and therefore made the book more difficult to read, and explains why it took me almost six months to finish it.

Goldman defended Leon Czolgocz, and her lifelong love Sasha Berkman's attempts on the lives of both president McKinley and the capitalist Henry Clay Frick in an intriguing way. The way she described these acts of violence (terror, even) was not that the perpetraitors were callous to human suffering and that enabled them to commit the acts. In fact, quite the contrary. They were so sensitive to the suffering of people that they couldn't stand by and let these individuals perpetuate that suffering. They took such drastic action on behalf of those that suffered because they were so hypersensitive that they couldn't bring themselves to live with the suffering of others. She refused to condemn the men whose propaganda by the deed was condemned by nearly the entire anarchist movement of the day, because of the state repression that followed the actions. She, like Malcom X, though the focus should be on the social conditions that led to these reactions.

I was disappointed that the book had no ending. Until the very last page, Goldman rattled off the themes and locations of lectures, so there was no closure. Part of the problem was that there wasn't closure in Emma Goldman's life at that point, given that she would still live to see the Spanish Revolution/Civil War and much of World War II before dying. An afterward from a friend or admirer would have closed the book nicely, though perhaps that now I think of Emma as still alive and working for anarchist revolution, and perhaps thats the way I should be thinking about her.

A passionate lover, a revolutionary, a woman without a country. Emma Goldman was an amazing woman.

The edition I have of this book is beautiful, and I would be willing to let anyone who wants to borrow it. The books is cloth-bound with embossed gold foil titles. Printed on heavy weighted paper, the type looks hand placed. There are pictures of characters about every 100 pages, an illustration table of contents, and an index in the back. Every page has a sentence summary of the page's contents, something I've never seen before.(less)

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Aug 29, 2007 Greg rated it 2 of 5 stars Recommends it for: petty political history types

Ms. Goldman's role in the Kronstadt Rebellion of 1921 is the best reason I can find to recommend this book, and I wish she would have spent more time talking about it and why she supported the rebellion, rather than presuming her readership understood the story in advance.

Other than providing a rare firsthand account of said rebellion, much less from a source unsympathetic to both the Soviet state and the west, I am hesitant to recommend the book.
Goldman was a part of the conspiracy to murder He...more

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Jul 21, 2007 Chilly SavageMelon rated it 4 of 5 stars

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There’s a horrible tendency to believe American rebellion started in the late 40’s/early 50’s with the Beats, psychic reaction to the horrors of the A bomb, the flowering of a socio-economic class called “teenager” and it’s beloved rock and roll. People wrote poems at Walden pond, hobos hopped freight trains and there has always been a party in Chinatown, but somehow it doesn’t get credit for being as sexy as Elvis to modern minds. Obviously American rebellion goes back much further than this, a...more There’s a horrible tendency to believe American rebellion started in the late 40’s/early 50’s with the Beats, psychic reaction to the horrors of the A bomb, the flowering of a socio-economic class called “teenager” and it’s beloved rock and roll. People wrote poems at Walden pond, hobos hopped freight trains and there has always been a party in Chinatown, but somehow it doesn’t get credit for being as sexy as Elvis to modern minds. Obviously American rebellion goes back much further than this, and if we are less in touch with those angry times that came before, our horrid attention spans and lack of historical presence must be blamed. Emma Goldman lived over a span that could be described as the golden age of American (and European) anarchism, and had to have been, as she was very much at the center of that times creation. A young immigrant woman, sickened and inspired by the hangings that followed the Haymarket Riots of 1886, Goldman devoted her life to philisophical Anarchism: a challenge to the institutions which mankind allows to limit it’s very humianity, be they “church”, “law”, “work”, or “love”. Her autobiography is a document to what the immigrant experience was like, what working conditions were at the turn of the century, the role of women in our culture then; and is filled with examples of what “control” will fear and how it will react. Though she never fired a bullet or threw a bomb, she was harassed throughout her carear by authorities and the press. After president McKinley was assasinated by an “Anarchist”, ludicrous laws swept the nation forbiding legal assembly and attempted to suppress their rights of suspect non-WASP indiviuals to express their views. Sound familiar? Emma was considered extemely dangerous, and she was, in the sense that she would not stray from her principles, though there were times when pragmatism overrode dogma. And the horrific questions she wanted answered: can’t we be more “free” than this? can’t we be more human? This first volume follows her through struggles as a seamstress and a nurse, orator and independant publisher, convict, lover of the unloved. It traces her relationships with other Anarchist of the era, both well known and otherwise. It follows her on speaking tours through a younger America and Europe. If it is at times a little tedious in it’s self-examination and passion, this can only be attributed to a quest for absolute honesty. It is long but thorough, with great titles at the top of every page like “I remarry Kershner and leave him again” or “I shock the pilgrim fathers”. It is an inspiring and fascinating read that requires a commitment that will be rewarded. People fought long and hard for an eight hour work day in this country, the idea of which somehow began to vanish in the eighties. There was a time when technology granted a certain aninimity to individuals, even though every effort was being made to suppress and find them. There was a time when “freedom” meant more than a series of economic choices, and humanity was not so tied to income. This is a new century, and a new struggle. We can take clues from the vision of those who came before.(less)

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Aug 27, 2009 Kate Sedon rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: non-fiction, memoir

Yep, five stars like I thought. I may not have enjoyed this memoir for lyrical qualities and literary conventions. But, feck lyrics and conventions. Through her memoir, Goldman subtly reminds her reader to keep things in a perspective of sorts (a couple conceptual steps back, if you will). What's more important? Literary conventions or humanitarian ideals? Money and power or love and dignity? I've been moved by many a memoir, but Goldman's holds a special place (right next to Jensen's A Language...more

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Aug 08, 2010 Randy rated it 5 of 5 stars

A very inspiring work by the anarchist-communist. Goldman tirelessly committed herself to the Cause and her beautiful ideal. She lived to motivate the masses and teach workers of the more sustainable and just alternative of anarchism. Her autobiography begins by giving insight into the injustices of being an immigrant, and throughout the book, the reader learns a first-person account of all of the movement's major demonstrations and events of the late 19th and early 20th century in the United St...more

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Sep 09, 2008 Morgan rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: my mom, your mom, Sarah Palin

In a time when even the farthest flung reaches of the American left are actually sorta psyched about a presidential candidate, the words of Emma Goldman come as a refreshing kick in the pants. Her writing explodes with life, bursting with an unabashedly anarchist ideology. The book reads like a who's-who of late 19th/early 20th century anarchism, rich with colorful details chronicling the events and differences within the movement. All the while, Emma Goldman keeps it personal, relating all thes...more

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Jun 07, 2009 Evalin'satom rated it 5 of 5 stars

Sympathy for the oldest profession. Incarceration for public speech. A swinger in a time of sexual repression, and most importantly, one of the greatest voices for fair labor practices in all of human history. Living My Life will give you all the strength you need to live yours. This book is a pure inspiration.

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Jun 06, 2010 Rachele rated it 5 of 5 stars

This book was amazing. I never thought a nearly 2,000 page autobiography of a woman who lived 100 years ago could be so inspiring, funny, poignant, thought-provoking, educational, honest, and sad. Goldman was an incredible writer — the book mixes momentous historical events which she lived through and participated in, and small-scale vignettes about her personal life and relationships to other people. Both are fascinating.

As a social justice activist, it's was also riveting to read a firsthand a...more

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Mar 22, 2009 Elizabeth Yockel rated it 4 of 5 stars

An impressive autobiography with a great showing of how dedicated she was to her cause. Her work on family planning/birth control in the second volume was especially interesting, as were her mentions of the horrible, dreary Flower City.

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May 15, 2009 Rachel rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: History Buffs

Recommended to Rachel by: Camille

I finally finished. It was a wonderful book, if only to open my eyes to a part of history that I was not even aware happened. Sometimes, I forgot how important it is to read biographies, autobiographies, and histories to truly know the past. They barely scrap the surface in school (unless you were a history major but even then, do you get it all?). I would write more but I feel it would be inadequate to describe. Her life was interesting and the movement she dedicated herself to was one I could...more

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May 15, 2012 Declan marked it as to-read

This should go well with Memoirs of a Revolutionary.

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Feb 11, 2009 Jennafhur marked it as to-read

I did a paper on her sometime in early high school and recently rediscovered her. I was excited when I found an old copy of this at the UNT library. :)

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Apr 23, 2009 lynze rated it 4 of 5 stars

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An informative look on the history of the era, told through the lens of one of the most respected women of the era, Emma Goldman.

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Aug 05, 2011 Michal Wigal added it · review of another edition

An amazing woman who, right or wrong, stood up for what she believed in and fought tyranny.

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Mar 05, 2009 Elizabeth rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: non-fiction, feminism

"Red-Emma" tells it like it is- an uncomfortable read that will knock your socks off.

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Mar 06, 2010 Angie rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: biographies-memoirs-letters

read this a long time ago and thought it was incredibly interesting.

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Mar 18, 2010 Donquierafaber rated it 5 of 5 stars

It is amazing how this compassionate, vibrant, obstinate woman is able to transport the reader from the transformation of her life from early adulthood to mature adulthood as though we are right there with her through it all. Although I do not necessarily agree with her political views, she gives a unique and valuable perspective both on the bourgeoisie of American Capitalism and on the disappointing realities of Russia's Communist Revolution. A must-read for anyone who wants a better understand...more

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Jan 17, 2012 Yelena rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: History Students

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Why wouldn't you like about an anarchist?

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Jun 07, 2012 Jessica Silk rated it 4 of 5 stars

I wish I had the pictured version because the graphics are way cooler than my version and the type was so tiny in my copy that it took me 3 weeks to read. I really loved this book. I wish I read it a long time ago. I really appreciated her honesty, vulnerability, and humbleness. the writing is very much like storytelling or talking to a friend. I liked the way in which she really models the feminist "personal is political" mantra (before it had a name) by putting herself out there, including her...more

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About Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman was a feminist anarchist known for her political activism, writing and speeches. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the twentieth century.

Born in Kovno in the Russian Empire (present-day Kaunas, Lithuania), Goldman emigrated to the US in 1885 and lived in New York City, where she joined the bu...more Emma Goldman was a feminist anarchist known for her political activism, writing and speeches. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the twentieth century.

Born in Kovno in the Russian Empire (present-day Kaunas, Lithuania), Goldman emigrated to the US in 1885 and lived in New York City, where she joined the burgeoning anarchist movement.Attracted to anarchism after the Haymarket affair, Goldman became a writer and a renowned lecturer on anarchist philosophy, women's rights, and social issues, attracting crowds of thousands.

She and anarchist writer Alexander Berkman, her lover and lifelong friend, planned to assassinate Henry Clay Frick as an act of propaganda of the deed. Although Frick survived the attempt on his life, Berkman was sentenced to twenty-two years in prison. Goldman was imprisoned several times in the years that followed, for "inciting to riot" and illegally distributing information about birth control. In 1906, Goldman founded the anarchist journal Mother Earth.

In 1917, Goldman and Berkman were sentenced to two years in jail for conspiring to "induce persons not to register" for the newly instated draft. After their release from prison, they were arrested—along with hundreds of others—and deported to Russia.

Initially supportive of that country's Bolshevik revolution, Goldman quickly voiced her opposition to the Soviet use of violence and the repression of independent voices. In 1923, she wrote a book about her experiences, My Disillusionment in Russia. While living in England, Canada, and France, she wrote an autobiography called Living My Life. After the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, she traveled to Spain to support the anarchist revolution there. She died in Toronto on May 14, 1940, aged 70.

During her life, Goldman was lionized as a free-thinking "rebel woman" by admirers, and derided by critics as an advocate of politically motivated murder and violent revolution.Her writing and lectures spanned a wide variety of issues, including prisons, atheism, freedom of speech, militarism, capitalism, marriage, free love, and homosexuality. Although she distanced herself from first-wave feminism and its efforts toward women's suffrage, she developed new ways of incorporating gender politics into anarchism. After decades of obscurity, Goldman's iconic status was revived in the 1970s, when feminist and anarchist scholars rekindled popular interest in her life.(less)

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“I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things.' Anarchism meant that to me, and I would live it in spite of the whole world — prisons, persecution, everything. Yes, even in spite of the condemnation of my own closest comrades I would live my beautiful ideal.” — 16 people liked it

“I became alive once more. At the dances I was one of the most untiring and gayest. One evening a cousin of Sasha, a young boy, took me aside. With a grave face, as if he were about to announce the death of a dear comrade, he whispered to me that it did not behoove an agitator to dance. Certainly not with such reckless abandon, anyway. It was undignified for one who was on the way to become a force in the anarchist movement. My frivolity would only hurt the Cause.

I grew furious at the impudent interference of the boy. I told him to mind his own business. I was tired of having the Cause constantly thrown into my face. I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from convention and prejudice, should demand the denial of life and joy. I insisted that our Cause could not expect me to become a nun and that the movement would not be turned into a cloister. If it meant that, I did not want it. "I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things." Anarchism meant that to me, and I would live it in spite of the whole world — prisons, persecution, everything. Yes, even in spite of the condemnation of my own closest comrades I would live my beautiful ideal” — 5 people liked it

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